Dates

Publication Date

2011-08-08

Start Date

2010-08-16

End Date

2010-08-22

Summary

The Upper Mississippi River Restoration-Environmental Management Program (UMRR-EMP) partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Region 3 to collect 2010 digital color infrared (CIR) aerial photography of Pools 1-13, Upper Mississippi River and Pools Alton–Marseilles, Illinois River at 8”/pixel and 16”/pixel respectively using a mapping-grade Applanix DSS439 digital aerial camera. The photography shall be at a minimum accuracy of 5-10 meters and allow for the development of orthorectified photo mosaics by U.S. Geological Survey – Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (USGS-UMESC) for all or portions of the coverage area. The flights occurred during times of peak vegetation biomass, typically from late August through [...]

Summary

The Upper Mississippi River Restoration-Environmental Management Program (UMRR-EMP) partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Region 3 to collect 2010 digital color infrared (CIR) aerial photography of Pools 1-13, Upper Mississippi River and Pools Alton–Marseilles, Illinois River at 8”/pixel and 16”/pixel respectively using a mapping-grade Applanix DSS439 digital aerial camera. The photography shall be at a minimum accuracy of 5-10 meters and allow for the development of orthorectified photo mosaics by U.S. Geological Survey – Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (USGS-UMESC) for all or portions of the coverage area. The flights occurred during times of peak vegetation biomass, typically from late August through early September. The primary use of this photography is for the development of Land Cover / Land Use (LCU) databases of the UMRS by the USGS-UMESC. The photography and LCU databases are used in support of all stages of HREP project development and monitoring. In addition, the photography and maps are used for research and monitoring efforts conducted by the LTRM component in support of UMRR-EMP. The imagery is served over the internet as orthorectified pool mosaics by USGS-UMESC.

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Purpose

In 1989, UMESC and the Upper Mississippi River Restoration-Environmental Management Program (UMRR-EMP) began collecting aerial photos of the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) from Cairo, IL to Minneapolis, MN and the Illinois River from its confluence with the Mississippi near Grafton, IL upstream to Joliet, IL. In years past the extent was road/railroad to road/railroad. Starting in 2000, the area photographed was expanded to base-of-bluff to base-of-bluff. The data are stored in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection, zone 15 and North American Datum 1983 (NAD83).